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  • Aussie Giveaway Linkup #90: Musical edition

    Aussie Giveaway Linkup #90: Musical edition

    Ben Milbourne Charlotte Best

    We’ve had a few highlights this week:

    • As you know, Holly (2) is potty training. When we picked Ella up from school today. Holly piped up within ear shot of everyone: “Ella, I did a poo today. It was THIS big’’ (cups her tiny hands as if she’s holding a football). Thank goodness Ella’s in Prep and not Grade 6.
    • We had a tough afternoon at Ghost Rock Vineyard at Shearwater in Tasmania. We listened to music by Ross Wilson, while sitting in the VIP area and eating food cooked by Ben Milbourne and Andy Allen from MasterChef. Oh, and Andy’s girlfriend, Home and Away and Puberty Blues star Charlotte Best. From the photo above, it looks like Charlotte was chief berry washer!
    • I wrote a piece earlier this week about the whole Sydney shopping centre banning screaming children. Promptly followed by having to follow my own advice the next day when Holly threw a terrible twos tantie in the school car park. I must have jinxed myself.
    • Ella lost her first tooth. Oh, the excitement. You would have thought she’d won the lottery. I guess, $2 is like $2 million to a five year old.

    OK, your turn. What have been the highlights of your week?

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    2. Giveaways must be open to Australian residents and be run by Australian-based bloggers or businesses.
    3. Grab the button below to add to your post.
    4. A new list is added each Sunday so bloggers need to add their links weekly.
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  • Aussie Giveaway Linkup #89: Bad language edition

    Aussie Giveaway Linkup #89: Bad language edition

    Holly1

    Using every method to shield the girls from bad language, it seems two-year-old Holly has been the first to crack an expletive.

    When Julian was about to put two legs into the same leg hole of the night nappy – Holly’s legs, not his – Holly piped up with:

    “No, you silly doofus.’’

    Followed by a rather cheeky grin, then 10 minutes of hysterics!

    Holly2

    Do your kids have silly words they use? Or just mine?

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    1. Only link directly to the giveaway post/s and include the prize and end date in the linky tool below. Link each giveaway separately. If you need to delete it, hover over your link, wait until the red “x’’ appears and click.
    2. Giveaways must be open to Australian residents and be run by Australian-based bloggers or businesses.
    3. Grab the button below to add to your post.
    4. A new list is added each Sunday so bloggers need to add their links weekly.
    5. Start entering the giveaways! Entry is at your own risk. We do not take responsibility for unfulfilled prizes or a blogger/business not abiding by their own terms and conditions.

     



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  • Aussie Giveaway Linkup #88: Highlights of an average life

    Aussie Giveaway Linkup #88: Highlights of an average life

    camel dishI thought today I’d give you some highlights from our day:

    • This afternoon we bought a Dyson Animal handheld vacuum, because I was tired of dragging out the big vacuum to clean under the dining table after dinner each night. OK, I lie. I let it pile up and then vacuum it on Saturdays. If the doorbell rings on a Friday, I just refuse to let them in. Now, at least, you’ll be able to visit me any day you wish!
    • During our shopping expedition, we also purchased a new Philips iron. Well, Julian purchased a new Philips iron. I told him there was no point in me choosing it. I don’t use it enough! He posted something to that affect on Facebook and a host of men put their hands up to being “chief iron man” in their household too.
    • We went out for dinner at our favourite restaurant tonight and on the specials menu was braised camel scotch. I’m not really sure where in Tasmania you get camels (and whose responsible for feeding them scotch!), but I can tell you, I definitely wasn’t about to try it. I assume – like seagulls, snake and pigeon – it tastes like chicken? Julian went the beef scotch fillet instead. Wise choice.

    scotch fillet

    What about you? Have you tried camel? Or something even more… interesting?

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    2. Giveaways must be open to Australian residents and be run by Australian-based bloggers or businesses.
    3. Grab the button below to add to your post.
    4. A new list is added each Sunday so bloggers need to add their links weekly.
    5. Start entering the giveaways! Entry is at your own risk. We do not take responsibility for unfulfilled prizes or a blogger/business not abiding by their own terms and conditions.

     



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  • Aussie Giveaway Linkup #87: Adding to the controversy

    Aussie Giveaway Linkup #87: Adding to the controversy

    Essendon Football Club

    For all you AFL lovers, here’s something we saw on a fence at Turners Beach here in Tassie today that’s sure to give you a giggle. Unless you’re an Essendon supporter.

    Go the Blues!

    OK, let’s get into some much less controversial competitions.

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    2. Giveaways must be open to Australian residents and be run by Australian-based bloggers or businesses.
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    4. A new list is added each Sunday so bloggers need to add their links weekly.
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  • WIN: Aussie Giveaway Linkup #85: Ferret fun

    WIN: Aussie Giveaway Linkup #85: Ferret fun

    Sydney Harbour Bridge

    What a whirlwind week we’ve had. Here are some of our wins:

    • We arrived home from Sydney, after having one of the best holidays we’ve had in a while. It was so incredibly relaxing – apart from the constant high-pitched squeals from The Bloke in The Shed. He’s decided we are NEVER moving to Sydney. He couldn’t cope with all the spiders.

    • While doing some ABC Reading Eggs together on the iPad, Julian tried to explain to Ella about Steve Jobs, the man who created all the “i’’ products. Ella replied with: “Yes, Dad. I know him.” Julian looked puzzled. “He’s on the front of Mum’s book’’. Of course she knows him!

    • Julian and Ella were up against Robyn Moore, the voice of Blinky Bill, in a celebrity ferret race today as part of Australia Day festivities. Well, the ferrets raced. Not Julian and Robyn. Robyn was disappointed with the lack of motivation from her ferret and broke into her Julia Gillard impersonation from ABC Radio comedy show How Green Was My Cactus to give it a pep talk. Meanwhile, 10 minutes earlier the race had been won by Julian and Ella’s ferret. This was their secret weapon (the rabbit. Not Ella looking distinctly like Heath Ledger playing The Joker):

    rabbit

    Aussie Giveaway Linkup instructions:

    If you’re a blogger or business wanting to take part in the Aussie Giveaway Linkup:

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    2. Giveaways must be open to Australian residents and be run by Australian-based bloggers or businesses.
    3. Grab the button below to add to your post.
    4. A new list is added each Sunday so bloggers need to add their links weekly.
    5. Start entering the giveaways! Entry is at your own risk. We do not take responsibility for unfulfilled prizes or a blogger/business not abiding by their own terms and conditions.

     




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  • Aussie Giveaway Linkup #84: Kids and iPods

    Aussie Giveaway Linkup #84: Kids and iPods

     

    Bakers Beach Tasmania

    The Christmas present I wasn’t convinced we needed has come back to bite The Bloke in the Shed on the bum.

    Ella: “Dad, can you come to the toilet with me and hold the iPod while I wee?’’

    Julian: “Um… no’’.

    OK, it must be my turn now with the iPod, lying by the pool entering the competitions below. Sound fair?

    Aussie Giveaway Linkup instructions:

    If you’re a blogger or business wanting to take part in the Aussie Giveaway Linkup:
    1. Only link directly to the giveaway post/s and include the prize and end date in the linky tool below. Link each giveaway separately. If you need to delete it, hover over your link, wait until the red “x’’ appears and click.
    2. Giveaways must be open to Australian residents and be run by Australian-based bloggers or businesses.
    3. Grab the button below to add to your post.
    4. A new list is added each Sunday so bloggers need to add their links weekly.
    5. Start entering the giveaways! Entry is at your own risk. We do not take responsibility for unfulfilled prizes or a blogger/business not abiding by their own terms and conditions.

     



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